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To: LarsA who wrote (49720)	1/20/2006 8:05:14 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196569

Maybe it´s also the "walled garden" that US Telcos insist on. I hate not being able to surf on my phone like on my PC at home. It used to be easier but since Cingular bought AT&T (my carrier)it´s harder to freely surf. I also hate to pay by the Mbit and I don´t need all you can eat $60 per month There is no walled garden on sprint and now payment per mbit. Download the Operaminibrowser and you can go anywhere on the web at 600 mbit EVDO speeds compliments of CDMA. Just a fixed fee of $15 for Powervision. $5 extra for live TV.

To: LarsA who wrote (49720)	1/21/2006 1:46:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196569

Lars, you have hit the problem: <Maybe it´s also the "walled garden" that US Telcos insist on. I hate not being able to surf on my phone like on my PC at home. It used to be easier but since Cingular bought AT&T (my carrier)it´s harder to freely surf. I also hate to pay by the Mbit and I don´t need all you can eat $60 per month. I couldn´t wait for wireless 3G and now I don´t care.> Same here in NZ, but with Telecom/Vodafone. Greedy greedy greedy and stupid. Telecom people seem to have derived their cultural norms from the old "We're the phone company, we don't have to care" concept of customer service and marketing. Globalstar used the same style. Paying by the megabit would be fine, I'm sure, if you weren't charged an arm and a leg. If it was a reasonable markup on the cost of the megabits, rather than $8 a megabyte as Telecom NZ charges for casual users, then you'd be happy to pay for what you use, just as you pay for how many tomatoes you buy at a supermarket. You don't buy "all you can eat" for $600 a month [and sometimes they are out of stock because other customers got them all first]. Or pay for 10 kg a month, whether you take delivery or not. Gas stations don't get you to guess how much you'll use each month, and you pay that much whether you use it all or not, and nor do they charge you three times the usual price per litre if you go over your estimated quantity. Or charge you for changing plans. Unfortunately, we are living in the digital stone age. Eventually, competition will erode their margins and their absurd salaries and they'll have to be efficient. There is a vast business opportunity waiting for the Wal-Mart of wireless. The dopey government people are in on the stupidity too. They required "price plans" to be submitted and approved. That's insane! Supermarkets and tomato growers don't have "price plans". Imagine having a vast government bureaucracy running price plans for carrots, onions, gasoline, toothpaste, cheese, camembert, brie, edam, grapes, wine and everything else. The dopey government people had the C Block auction for melanin-rich people, excellent gender people, small businesses and caused a decade-long shambles which ended in the Supreme Court. There isn't a tomato auction for brown people with great gender as long as they have a small bank account. Well, here we are in the 21st century and we can't use mobile cyberspace though the technology exists. Great! Mqurice